Okay, I realize this is becoming an annual tradition for me, but sadly... my
undermistletoe entry is due, oh, TOMORROW. And yeah...nothing. I sit and stare at the blank Word document in mute horror. Woe.
Before I flail and surrender to
svmadelyn's tender mercies, I thought I would give my flist a try -- inspiration, please? I don't have huge amounts of time before midnight tomorrow but I can probably manage a decent ficlet (5000 words?) given the right idea. Last year the amazing
beeej came to the rescue and the startlingly long The Theory of Acquired Characters was the end result -- so, see, I *can* be manipulated! *hopeful grin*
My prompt is for Harlequin Week: either Expecting His Royal Baby or Rich Man's Vengeful Seduction. Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking either. God! All I have is visions of terrifying mpreg.
Before I flail and surrender to
My prompt is for Harlequin Week: either Expecting His Royal Baby or Rich Man's Vengeful Seduction. Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking either. God! All I have is visions of terrifying mpreg.
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Or even billionaire seduces ex-friend reporter intending to leave him at the altar after substituting a diatribe about past transgressions for the wedding vows -- only the tables turn and the fake sedution turns very real. But realization comes too late and the reporter learns the billionaires initial intentions. Billionaire has to eat crow.
(yes, I know these sound like SV plots, but Rodney could definitely be a billionaire and John could be the Overlord of the Pegasus Galaxy)
And then stuff happens and happy ending.
And John could be all "wtf are you thinking, I'm gay you moron!"
John becomes friends with Rodney's bodyguard (Ronon) and his personal aide (Teyla) to gather more information and realizes by hanging around with him that Rodney isn't a bad guy at all and that rich guy should really be going after someone completely different.
But plans are already in motion/rich guy doesn't buy it and so John has to come up with another plan. Ronon and Teyla try to tell Rodney what's going on but he doesn't believe him/they somehow get thwarted, so the three of them decide that John should try to seduce Rodney first before rich guy's seduction works. John awkwardly does because while rich guy is all suave and shit, John is a great big dork who appeals to Rodney's geekiness.
But then somehow Rodney finds out that Ronon and Teyla had been telling the truth and that John was in on it from the beginning and gets angry, but Ronon and Teyla say that John tried to save him by seducing him first and Rodney gets the wrong idea that it was a kind of penance/sacrifice for John and that he really never like Rodney at all and he stiffly says thank you and goodbye, and then won't take any of his calls.
John goes back to rich guy all pissed despite rich guy's sincere apology for getting it all wrong, and then other things happen and somehow there's a happily ever after.
Too bad there's no trophy for plotbunny enablers.
This one is awesome. It totally deserves to be written by someone.